>> Go << What can I add other than this - it is our responsibility to understand what happened. Buy it here or somewhere else, but it's your repsonsibility to understand.
Here's what one reader says about the book: It's a start and a very good start on helping us understand what happened and what our government must be made to do if we are to survive as a nation. The taxpayers are paying zillions of dollars for overlapping fiefdoms that seem to be able to accomplish next to nothing. It's time to streamline and develop a serious work plan for folks involved in terrorism. It should not, IMO, include the government's favorite -- drugs -- unless it can be shown that an actual Isamofascist terrorist is in the business. It's amazing to see just how many agencies are tasked with the same thing and yet produce no product of value.
A very serious defect is that no Index is provided at the end of the book and for the book which after all will turn into a source document to be properly used, a good Index is necessary.
I also think it is time to name names and a great deal of that is avoided by the writers. Instead of John Doe, we hear about "the agent." I would love to see someone write a followup book on just what has happened to the careers of the many civil servants involved in the 9-11 mess. Why do I suspect the young FBI woman from Minneapolis hasn't been given a promotion while the many civil "servants" who failed us merrily go ahead with their careers?
It is a relatively fast read and I don't think that people who don't read it should be allowed to vote! It truly is mind boggling. And we should all thank W. W. Norton for producing the book at a reasonable cost -- something the Government Printing Office is completely unable to do.
